Martin v. Union Collieries Co.

Opinion by

Cunningham, J.,

The claimant in this workmen’s compensation case was a carpenter having charge of the maintenance and repairing of the houses of the defendant coal company at one of its Renton collieries. The award for total disability, upon which the judgment now appealed from by the employer was entered, was made upon the theory that claimant suffered an accident while engaged in digging a ditch on March 31,1937, which so aggravated an existing abnormal condition of his right, knee (caused by two previous accidental injuries to it for neither of which any compensation had been…